Top 1200 Important Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Of course money is important. Very important. Important to everybody. If I said it wasn't, I'd be lying. Especially because it's not like I've made hundreds of millions of dollars in my career.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

There are so many stupid things that steal that purpose from us. The stupid things that you believe a lie that we ‘re not as important as we really are. That our life isn’t as important as it really is. It’s important to the people that you love, it’s important to the people that you will love in the future, it’s important to the world around you and it’s so important that you fulfill the purpose that only you can fulfill the way that you can fulfill that.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.